International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

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Here's some blue birchen and a birchen marans!

Beautiful chicks! I am so envious! I love birchens, and blue birchens are super nice! The silver and blue really looks great together.

 

[KF0002]

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Not the best picture but the best I could get.

Four is better than none. Every victory, however small is still a victory. Marans eggs can be harder to hatch under the best of circumstances. Congrats on your sweet babies! Very cute!!

I had a small hatch a couple days ago, but any is better than zero. I have more going into lockdown tomorrow, including silver duckwing old english game bantams!

 

[Bantambird]

 

[Red Banks]

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Ahhhhhh

 

[marchick]

Beautiful chicks! I am so envious! I love birchens, and blue birchens are super nice! The silver and blue really looks great together.

X2

 

[BobletFarmBirds]

Question for y’all,
If a FBCM roo is crossed over an Olive Egger hen, would the eggs get increasingly darker? I know that no two olives are ever the same. Does it depend on how much of the FBCM genetics the OE holds?

 

[Bantambird]

Question for y’all,
If a FBCM roo is crossed over an Olive Egger hen, would the eggs get increasingly darker? I know that no two olives are ever the same. Does it depend on how much of the FBCM genetics the OE holds?

F1 olive eggers usually have 1 blue egg Gene and 1 white egg Gene from the brown egg parent, while the brown egg parent contributes to the pigment layer on the top of the egg. So, calculating it out, you may or may not get olive eggs at all from F2 group, being as F1 only has one of each Gene.

 

[Hensndoes]

F1 olive eggers usually have 1 blue egg Gene and 1 white egg Gene from the brown egg parent, while the brown egg parent contributes to the pigment layer on the top of the egg. So, calculating it out, you may or may not get olive eggs at all from F2 group, being as F1 only has one of each Gene.

So taking that into consideration what would the chances be of a darker green egg when breeding a maran roo over a light green egg laying EE hen? I may find out this summer....but would take till next year to see the eggs

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I need to get some updated pictures of the babies here soon but I think "Star" may actually be a cockerel, not a pullet :/

 

[Chooks man]

Question for y’all,
If a FBCM roo is crossed over an Olive Egger hen, would the eggs get increasingly darker? I know that no two olives are ever the same. Does it depend on how much of the FBCM genetics the OE holds?

if the marans rooster is from a really dark strain layer ,than his OE daughters will lay darker olive egg

chooks man